seal @ - @ carver , hu was primarily a publisher . his publishing house , the ten bamboo studio , produced reference works on call ##igraphy , poetry and art ; medical textbooks ; books on etymology and phonetic ##s ; and copies of as well as commentaries on the con ##fu ##cian classics . unlike other publishers in the area , the ten bamboo studio did not publish works of narrative fiction such as plays or novels . this bias towards academia was likely a consequence of the studio ' s location : the mountain on which hu took up residence was just to the north of the nanjing guo ##zi ##jian ( national academy ) , which provided a captive market for academic texts .
seal @ - @ carver, hu was primarily a publisher. his publishing house, the ten bamboo studio, produced reference works on calligraphy, poetry and art ; medical textbooks ; books on etymology and phonetics ; and copies of as well as commentaries on the confucian classics. unlike other publishers in the area, the ten bamboo studio did not publish works of narrative fiction such as plays or novels. this bias towards academia was likely a consequence of the studio's location : the mountain on which hu took up residence was just to the north of the nanjing guozijian ( national academy ), which provided a captive market for academic texts.